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Thursday, December 15, 2011

DRDO Statement: The first fully modified Aircraft for indigenously developed Indian Airborne Warning and Control System (AEW&C) aircraft, the EMB-145I took to the skies on 6 December 2011, as part of its first maiden flight

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Space Shuttle launched on 8 July was on its last mission, bringing three decades of flights of this unique spaceplane to a close. ESA’s new website highlights this era and its important role in European space endeavours.

The boxy black and white craft is the queen of technological marvels from the late 20th century. From its first launch in 1981 the Space Shuttle has been the way to fly to space for many of humankind.
It has transformed spaceflight: it dispatched and partially even returned many satellites and deep-space probes, it helped to end the Cold War by docking with Russia’s Mir space station and it made assembly of the International Space Station possible.

Impressively, the Hubble Space Telescope was delivered into orbit, repaired and maintained by Shuttle on five missions.

With some 2.5 million moving parts, the orbiter with three main engines fuelled from the huge external tank, and the complementary twin solid rocket boosters form a package that is perhaps the most complex technological system ever built.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

India successfully carried out the second test flight of its MALE (Medium Altitude High Endurance) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle RUSTOM on May 21.
Rustom-1 is developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment(ADE), a DRDO lab engaged in pioneering R&D work in the field of aeronautics in India.
Rustom is designed to have an endurance of 14 hours and an altitude of 8000 metres, a DRDO release said.
This flight is a precursor to payload integrated flight and has met all its objectives.